Jen was so gracious to have us all over to her house for Spinster’s — how nice to stay in town for a change in pace. As always, everyone was evil and brought delicious food (that I’m sure was all fat free). I enjoy this group so much — we’re all very different, [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 26, 2008
Louis
We’ve gotten a new puppy — Louis.
Louis is 3 1/2 months old and is a blue merle Cardigan Welsh Corgi. Cardigans are a herding dog from the Wales region of Great Britain and can be traced back to the times that the Romans occupied England. They were bred to be a short stature [...]
August 22, 2008
“Betsy” Felted Bucket Hat
I’ve just finished my “Betsy” Felted Bucket Hat by Adrienne Thomas. I used my own hand dyed yarn in subtle shades of blue and periwinkle and needles size US#9. It took approximately 225 yds and the pattern is one size, so I felted it to fit my own hat size.
Above is my hat [...]
August 20, 2008
Spinning done
Some Falkland roving dyed by cloudlover69 on Etsy . . .
and my finished spinning.
Approximately 332 yards at a DK knitting weight.
August 18, 2008
A Beautiful Gift
Nikol gave me this lovely yarn that I’ve been coveting forever. There are five skeins that are lace weight, each with around 400 yards. I love the color way she chose for this and am thumbing through my patterns to find the right one to compliment her dyeing. This was such a [...]
August 17, 2008
In Memory of Sophie
2001-2008
Yesterday we had quite a shock. I was a hour and a half away from home working on a project with friend and Frank was cheering on his nephew doing a 100 mile mountain bike race, when we got a call that our sweet clown of a dog Sophie had been hit by a [...]
August 6, 2008
Silly Cats (equal opportunity laughing)
I thought I should let the cats have a bit of air time as well . . .
August 1, 2008
Some Finished Pieces (finally)
I’m finally getting some of the items I mentioned earlier as getting finished in the month of June (hmmmm, blogging about them on July 26th and not getting pictures of them posted till the month of August . . . do you see a pattern of habits here?)
All are made with yarn that I dyed [...]
